Kartik Madiraju, an 11th-grader from Montreal, was able to generate about half the voltage of a normal AA battery with a fifth of an ounce of naturally occurring magnetic bacteria. And the bacteria kept pumping current for 48 hours nonstop.
Well, as most new Macs have a Treacherous Computing Module installed and Apple sure will use it to restrict their OS from being installed in generic boxes, this doesn't surprise me the least. It's only a matter of time before the TPM is used for other purposes, such as userland DRM.
Let them install World of Warcraft on their computers as Blizzard use BitTorrent to distribute patches. Then if they are good studens you can let them play abit afterwards.:-)
It was a nice surprise to see FFmpeg in there, these guys, while largely unknown, deserve some _serious_ credits for their work. If you don't know, FFmpeg develop the libav libraries (libavcodec and libavformat) that demux, mux, decode and encode pretty much every video and audio format in existence.
If you use mplayer, you rely on these libs. If you use xine, you rely on their work. If you use VLC - same. Heck, even if you use Media Player Classic + ffdshow on Windowz you use their libs.
Thumbs up!
(No, I have nothing to do with them. I do use their libs in my project though, and they are nice).
"It is alleged that he used software available on the internet to scan tens of thousands of computers on US military networks from his home PC, looking for machines that might be exposed due to flaws in the Windows operating system.
Many of the computers he broke into were protected by easy-to-guess passwords, investigators said. In some cases, McKinnon allegedly shut down the computer systems he invaded. "
WHAT?! He's just a script kiddie??! All this fuss over some guy port scanning Windows boxes??
To sort my (ehm) porn, I hacked togheter this 8 kb python program using wxPython and pyGame a couple of months ago. Here it is: http://psionicist.online.fr/pile.py.txt
Seriously, what the FUCK? Googles anti-phising filter (as in google toolbar) is the one who is constantly sending your HTTP requests to Googles servers. There was a slashdot post about this a while ago, but I cannot find it.
Unless you can disable this "feature" or it works completely differently, I'd consider Firefox 2 spyware.
Well, that's easy. I have two folders: "Projects" and "Archive". "Projects" is divided in folders, my current projects. "Archive" is previously written Projects. Archive has folders for language etc. All in all my programming folder is 2 GB. Code others have written I save in a completely different place.
Each player slots Tetrominoes into a cluster of blocks that's initially right in the middle of the two playing fields. Performing well and racking up combos pushes the block cluster away and into your opponent's screen, lessening his maneuvering space and chances of survival.
The object of the game is to beat your opponent in a battle, like, with most other puzzle games, by filling their grid up to the top with garbage. Puyos fall from the top of the screen in a pair (although for Puyo Puyo Fever, they can fall in triplets, double pairs, and Bigpuyos). The pair can be moved left and right and rotated clockwise and anti-clockwise 90. The pair drops until one puyo falls onto another puyo or the bottom of the screen, following the rules of gravity. The pair then breaks, so the other puyo is free to fall until it falls onto another puyo or the bottom of the screen.
As you might have read, I've moved to San Diego. I've joined a great team at MP3tunes and will be applying my expertise to a project called Oboe. That's about all I can say at this point.
On my way to San Diego I stopped by San Francisco. I met up with some of the people at the EFF and Seth Schoen demonstrated the research they've been doing into printers that spy on you. Unfortunately I did not have much time in San Francisco, but I did get to visit the Exploratorium.
I will try to get back to everyone who has emailed me recently. If you haven't received a response by Monday, feel free to resend your email.
The Experimental Gameplay Project began as a student pitched project at the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University. The project started in Spring 2005 with the goal of discovering and rapidly prototyping as many new forms of gameplay as possible. A team of four grad students, we locked ourselves in a room for a semester with three rules:
1. Each game must be made in less than seven days,
2. Each game must be made by exactly one person,
3. Each game must be based around a common theme i.e. "gravity", "vegetation", "swarms", etc.
As the project progressed, we were amazed and thrilled with the onslaught of web traffic, with the attention from gaming magazines, and with industry professionals and academics all asking the same questions, "How are you making these games so quickly?" and "How can we do it too?" Though we successfully met our goal of making over 50 games, we realized that this project had become much less about the games, and much more about the crazy development process - and how we could help others do the same thing. We wrote about this process in our whitepaper How to Prototype a Game in Under 7 Days.
TFA doesn't say anything about DRM on the videos you can buy. I quote:
ne of the more interesting aspects of the Video Store, however, is the fact that they're also making their non-copy-protected content available for download DRM-free encoded for the iPod and PSP (though there's also no word on what it is we're going to have to deal with in terms of DRM on purchased Google Video content).
Some details of Google's online video service remain unclear, such as how much content owners might charge consumers to download their videos. Google last year had said it planned to allow content owners to charge for videos, but it hadn't activated that feature. Interest in delivering video over the Internet has surged since October, when Apple began offering downloads of popular TV shows through a partnership with Walt Disney Co. Google has developed its own digital-rights-management software to protect downloaded videos from piracy.
So Google is now creating their own DRM. And they have a partnership with Walt Disney. Anyone else feel a conflicting interest here? Yeah, business is business, but I really liked the "do no evil"-mantra. At least I liked Googles _taste_. Buying AOL of all companies AND creating DRM is not what I'd expect from Google.
On the other hand, Apple did it, and most people still like Apple. It's a sad world when the best we can do is hope for the lesser of all evils to win...
- If a boy tells his friend to reload a webpage, he gets thrown into jail and gets felony charges.
- A lone spammer gets $11 billion in fines.
- If joe sixpack downloads a movie he gets huge fines.
Yet, if a medium to large corporation sell/delete customer records, infect consumers computers with spyware or the like, they only get a slap on the wrist?
When did corporations get more freedoms than individuals?
This could actually work. It's not uncommon for small parties to appear like this in Sweden and get craploads of votes. For example, the small party June List ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junilistan ) is only a few years old, but they got around 15% of the votes in the EU-parliament election in 2004. They only thing the June List care about is not moving too much power to the EU. Given that around 80% of all young adults vote in Sweden this little piracy party could actually get enough votes.
This sounds good for the pirates, but it probably isn't. The party is very disorganized, their ideas are a little to radical for most Swedes (heck, I don't know a single pirate who want to abolish _all_ ntellectual property laws) and the party is not very serious sounding either. Their leader was completely unknown until today, only known under the handle "falconwing". I bet he will get lots of votes from the elderly.;)
Anyhow, this is interesting because now all the bigger parties have to make up their mind. 1 out of 9 swedes do download music after all.
Modded down because of a typo? This is Slashdot for crying out loud, it's not like you have never been exposed to typos before. And you certainly know WHO actually said that famous bury-quote.
Oh well, now when I've been modded down, I can see someone else here posted that Sony quote 10 minutes later and was modded insightful. Sigh.
By far the best message board about Dungeons & Dragons is ENWorld: http://www.enworld.org/ It's actually the only forum I know of where the average member is older than 30, for better or worse. They have a specific forum for gamers looking for groups to join. There might be groups in your area, try it out.
And people accept this? I though the day someone introduced DRM on physical products people think they understand (unlike computers) would be the day the publik spoke out against this nonsense. If people accept "car DRM" then I guess they will accept all sorts of computer based DRM too. This is sad news.
In other news: A team of researchers belived to be linked to an unknown group of terrorists was charged under the DMCA and PATRIOT act as a threat to national security. They are now being held for an unknown period if time, awaiting trial...
The New York Times is reporting on a device called the Mosquito invented by Howard Stapleton designed to drive teens away by emitting a high frequency noise at 75db.
Slashdot Mirror
I am more impressed with that Montreal kid who did something similiar:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70882-0.ht
Kartik Madiraju, an 11th-grader from Montreal, was able to generate about half the voltage of a normal AA battery with a fifth of an ounce of naturally occurring magnetic bacteria. And the bacteria kept pumping current for 48 hours nonstop.
Well, as most new Macs have a Treacherous Computing Module installed and Apple sure will use it to restrict their OS from being installed in generic boxes, this doesn't surprise me the least. It's only a matter of time before the TPM is used for other purposes, such as userland DRM.
Let them install World of Warcraft on their computers as Blizzard use BitTorrent to distribute patches. Then if they are good studens you can let them play abit afterwards. :-)
It was a nice surprise to see FFmpeg in there, these guys, while largely unknown, deserve some _serious_ credits for their work. If you don't know, FFmpeg develop the libav libraries (libavcodec and libavformat) that demux, mux, decode and encode pretty much every video and audio format in existence.
If you use mplayer, you rely on these libs. If you use xine, you rely on their work. If you use VLC - same. Heck, even if you use Media Player Classic + ffdshow on Windowz you use their libs.
Thumbs up!
(No, I have nothing to do with them. I do use their libs in my project though, and they are nice).
Create a problem that doesn't exist to pimp your own Treacherous Computing initiative.
To sort my (ehm) porn, I hacked togheter this 8 kb python program using wxPython and pyGame a couple of months ago. Here it is: http://psionicist.online.fr/pile.py.txt
r eadid=504073
The code is god awful, but it works. Some screenshots here: http://forum.sweclockers.com/showthread.php?s=&th
Seriously, what the FUCK? Googles anti-phising filter (as in google toolbar) is the one who is constantly sending your HTTP requests to Googles servers. There was a slashdot post about this a while ago, but I cannot find it.
Unless you can disable this "feature" or it works completely differently, I'd consider Firefox 2 spyware.
Well, that's easy. I have two folders: "Projects" and "Archive". "Projects" is divided in folders, my current projects. "Archive" is previously written Projects. Archive has folders for language etc. All in all my programming folder is 2 GB. Code others have written I save in a completely different place.
This sounds awfully like Puyo Puyo to me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyo_Puyo
Electicity... magnetism... Bah. Show me a processor working entirely by gravity!
http://bash.org/?9322
. . | . . .
<tag> Ouroboros: lets play Pong
<Ouroboros> Ok.
<tag> |
<Ouroboros>
<tag> |
<Ouroboros> . |
<tag> |
<Ouroboros> |
<Ouroboros> Whoops
From DVD Jon:s blog http://nanocrew.net/2005/10/21/moved-to-san-diego/
As you might have read, I've moved to San Diego. I've joined a great team at MP3tunes and will be applying my expertise to a project called Oboe. That's about all I can say at this point.
On my way to San Diego I stopped by San Francisco. I met up with some of the people at the EFF and Seth Schoen demonstrated the research they've been doing into printers that spy on you. Unfortunately I did not have much time in San Francisco, but I did get to visit the Exploratorium.
I will try to get back to everyone who has emailed me recently. If you haven't received a response by Monday, feel free to resend your email.
Interesting.
I am more impressed by these guys: http://www.experimentalgameplay.com/ - 4 grad studens who created 50+ games in one semester.
_ 01.shtml Recommended read.
The Experimental Gameplay Project began as a student pitched project at the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University. The project started in Spring 2005 with the goal of discovering and rapidly prototyping as many new forms of gameplay as possible. A team of four grad students, we locked ourselves in a room for a semester with three rules:
1. Each game must be made in less than seven days,
2. Each game must be made by exactly one person,
3. Each game must be based around a common theme i.e. "gravity", "vegetation", "swarms", etc.
As the project progressed, we were amazed and thrilled with the onslaught of web traffic, with the attention from gaming magazines, and with industry professionals and academics all asking the same questions, "How are you making these games so quickly?" and "How can we do it too?" Though we successfully met our goal of making over 50 games, we realized that this project had become much less about the games, and much more about the crazy development process - and how we could help others do the same thing. We wrote about this process in our whitepaper How to Prototype a Game in Under 7 Days.
How to Prototype a Game in Under 7 Days: http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20051026/gabler
Come back when Windows can run on non-x86-hardware and toasters.
TFA doesn't say anything about DRM on the videos you can buy. I quote:
6 4838423-wGEG4V5bN3Q0Pm7bvt0ceWXfYjQ_20060112.html? mod=blogs ):
ne of the more interesting aspects of the Video Store, however, is the fact that they're also making their non-copy-protected content available for download DRM-free encoded for the iPod and PSP (though there's also no word on what it is we're going to have to deal with in terms of DRM on purchased Google Video content).
According to Wall Street Journal ( http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB1136438145
Some details of Google's online video service remain unclear, such as how much content owners might charge consumers to download their videos. Google last year had said it planned to allow content owners to charge for videos, but it hadn't activated that feature. Interest in delivering video over the Internet has surged since October, when Apple began offering downloads of popular TV shows through a partnership with Walt Disney Co. Google has developed its own digital-rights-management software to protect downloaded videos from piracy.
So Google is now creating their own DRM. And they have a partnership with Walt Disney. Anyone else feel a conflicting interest here? Yeah, business is business, but I really liked the "do no evil"-mantra. At least I liked Googles _taste_. Buying AOL of all companies AND creating DRM is not what I'd expect from Google.
On the other hand, Apple did it, and most people still like Apple. It's a sad world when the best we can do is hope for the lesser of all evils to win...
This doesn't make any sense, at all.
- If a boy tells his friend to reload a webpage, he gets thrown into jail and gets felony charges.
- A lone spammer gets $11 billion in fines.
- If joe sixpack downloads a movie he gets huge fines.
Yet, if a medium to large corporation sell/delete customer records, infect consumers computers with spyware or the like, they only get a slap on the wrist?
When did corporations get more freedoms than individuals?
This could actually work. It's not uncommon for small parties to appear like this in Sweden and get craploads of votes. For example, the small party June List ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junilistan ) is only a few years old, but they got around 15% of the votes in the EU-parliament election in 2004. They only thing the June List care about is not moving too much power to the EU. Given that around 80% of all young adults vote in Sweden this little piracy party could actually get enough votes. This sounds good for the pirates, but it probably isn't. The party is very disorganized, their ideas are a little to radical for most Swedes (heck, I don't know a single pirate who want to abolish _all_ ntellectual property laws) and the party is not very serious sounding either. Their leader was completely unknown until today, only known under the handle "falconwing". I bet he will get lots of votes from the elderly. ;)
Anyhow, this is interesting because now all the bigger parties have to make up their mind. 1 out of 9 swedes do download music after all.
Modded down because of a typo? This is Slashdot for crying out loud, it's not like you have never been exposed to typos before. And you certainly know WHO actually said that famous bury-quote.
Oh well, now when I've been modded down, I can see someone else here posted that Sony quote 10 minutes later and was modded insightful. Sigh.
Oops, of course I mean Steve Ballmer, not Jobs.
They forgot a few important ones:
"I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill Google." -- Steve Jobs
"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?" -- Thomas Hesse, Sony
By far the best message board about Dungeons & Dragons is ENWorld: http://www.enworld.org/ It's actually the only forum I know of where the average member is older than 30, for better or worse. They have a specific forum for gamers looking for groups to join. There might be groups in your area, try it out.
And people accept this? I though the day someone introduced DRM on physical products people think they understand (unlike computers) would be the day the publik spoke out against this nonsense. If people accept "car DRM" then I guess they will accept all sorts of computer based DRM too. This is sad news.
In other news: A team of researchers belived to be linked to an unknown group of terrorists was charged under the DMCA and PATRIOT act as a threat to national security. They are now being held for an unknown period if time, awaiting trial...
The New York Times is reporting on a device called the Mosquito invented by Howard Stapleton designed to drive teens away by emitting a high frequency noise at 75db.
So... He invented Jazz music.